It's the first of the month and you know what that means--shop newsletters! Not every shop does a newsletter, and not every shop releases their newsletter on Day One of the Month, but enough do that I thought I'd collect them all here in one place so you could have a happy browse between fits of holiday madness.Amy's Golden Strand is full of Amy Bunger goodness and ideas for couching to get various effects. Hummmm. Wonder if my Russian Santa needs a coiled and couched beard? By the way, Amy's going to a bi-monthly newsletter in 2014. Please join me in weeping copious tears over six fewer fun messages from Amy next year!http://www.amybunger.com/f/1213.pdf

Speaking of Russian Santas, Leigh Deigns has put out their latest newsletter. As always, it is full of the warm personality of Leigh herself and tidbits about her designs. (By the way, I know Leigh Designs isn't a shop but I thought you'd enjoy their newsletter, so I included it here.)http://www.leighdesigns.com/News.html

I'm sure most of us in America have seen copies of Cosmopolitan on the racks at the grocery store checkout line. Did you know that the original editor, Helen Gurley Brown, stitched?I was thinking of her yesterday and her famous "Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere" pillow so I did a little Googling. This is what I found.http://ifthelampshadefits.blogspot.com/2012/08/helen-gurley-browns-apartment.html

I'm not advocating a wild social life in one of the great cities of the world for stitchers, but being an adventurer in your stitching is no bad thing.

Helen, wherever you are, we are raising a glass of champagne to you this morning! Written by Jane/Chilly HollowBlogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.comand at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com@ Copyright 2013 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

There's white...and then there is WHITE. Anne shows how various shades of color look together as she chooses whites for her Amanda Lawford Santa hair and fur trim. Click on the little photo for a much better look at her thread choices and their various shades of white.http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2013/11/raising-some-eyebrows.htmlWritten by Jane/Chilly HollowBlogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.comand at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com@ Copyright 2013 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.